Income Tax (Relief From Double Taxation) (Hong Kong) Order, 2010

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INCOME TAX ACT

(CHAPTER 35J

INCOME TAX (RELIEF FROM DOUBLE TAXATION)

(HONG KONG) ORDER, 2010 19th. JULY, 2010

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection (1) of section 41 of the Income 'Thx

Act (Chapter 35) that if His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council by order declares that arrangements specified in the order have been made with the

Government of any territory outside Brunei Darussalam with a view to affording relief from double taxation in relation to tax under that Act and any tax of a similar character imposed by the laws of that territory, and that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect, the arrangements shall have effect in relation to tax under the Act notwithstanding anything in any written law.

AND WHEREAS by an Agreement dated the 20th. day of March, 2010

between the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of

Brunei Darussalam and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative

Region of the People's Republic of China arrangements were made amongst other things for relief from double taxation.

AND WHEREAS by a Protocol dated the 20th. day of March, 2010 between the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei

Darussalam and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, paragraph 5 of Article 25 of the Agreement was clarified.

NOW THEREFORE it is hereby declared by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang

Di-Pertuan in Council-fa)

that the arrangements specified in the First Schedule, as clarified by the

Protocol specified in the Second Schedule, have been made with the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of

China; and

{b) it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect notwithstanding anything in any written law.

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